Nina Dobrev's New CBS Sitcom Fires Showrunner for Using 'Inappropriate Language in the Workplace'

Bob Kushell — co-showrunner of CBS’ Nina Dobrev-led midseason comedy Fam — has been fired for misconduct, TVLine has learned exclusively. A CBS rep declined to comment, but an insider tells TVLine that Kushell was let go for using “inappropriate language in the workplace.” Fam creator/co-showrunner Corinne Kingsbury will now serve as the sitcom’s sole showrunner.

The multi-cam Fam finds ex-Vampire Diaries star Dobrev playing a woman who is trying to get in good with her fiancé’s upstanding family — a plan that’s ruined when her hot mess of a half-sister comes to live with her to escape their disaster of a father. Tone Bell (Truth Be Told) plays said fiancé. The cast also includes Odessa Adlon (Nashville), Brian Stokes Mitchell (The Path) and Sheryl Lee Ralph (Ray Donovan).